Blawg Search - Law Blogs, Lawyer Blogs, Legal Blogs Directory & Search Engine

... agreed to pay air-quality regulators $430,000 to settle claims they improperly removed asbestos from San Francisco Bay Area buildings. The fines were the largest asbestos reporting and removal penalties the Bay Area Air Quality Management District has levied, the agency said Tuesday. USA Properties Fund Inc. and USA Multifamily Management Inc. agreed to pay $300,000 on allegations it used unqualified workers to remove asbestos from the ceiling of ...

... Has eBay become so powerful that it can successfully claim to be the only "Bay" on the Internet? That's what it argued in a recent Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals trademark infringement case. In that case, Perfumebay.com, Inc. v. eBay, Inc., - - - F.3d - ... didn't go that far, thankfully, and enjoined only the use of "perfumebay" as a single word. Thus, use of the term "Bay" without the "e" was permitted. However, that still would seem to prohibit any use of a domain name with the letters "ebay" in ...

Finding the mark to be primarily geographically deceptively misdescriptive, the Board affirmed a Section 2(e)(3) refusal to register the mark MOSKOVSKAYA for vodka. The crucial issue involved the doctrine of foreign equivalents, and more specifically, ... is knowledgeable in the foreign language,' will translate the mark into its English equivalent." Applicant, based on its reading of Palm Bay Import, Inc. v. Veuve Clicquot Ponsardin Maison Fondee En 1772, 73 USPQ2d 1689 (Fed. Cir. 2005), asserted ...

... CAFC ruled that the Board had improperly applied the materiality test of Section 2(e)(3) because it failed to consider whether a substantial portion of all relevant consumers ... oral argument here]. Doctrine of Foreign Equivalents: The CAFC's decision in Palm Bay gave rise to some confusion about how the doctrine of foreign equivalents is to be applied. Here, the court ... because of the particular context in which they occur. See In re Tia Maria, Inc., 188 USPQ 524, 525-26 (TTAB 1975). There may be many ...

Two separate lawsuits were filed against R & S Meats, Inc. in New York State today: one in Brooklyn, at the U. S. District Court, ... toxic pathogen." The Purcell family of Huntington, NY also attended the July 3 barbecue at the Bay Club. One of their children consumed hamburgers at the function, and fell ill several ... . After being collected from summer camp, she was admitted to the hospital and found to be infected with E. coli O157:H7. She was treated for several days, and continues to recover ...

Per U.S. v. Sea Bay Development Corp., Slip Copy, 2007 WL 1378544 (E.D.Va. May 08, 2007): Williams' Farms' ... Mot. to Dismiss Filed by Def. Frank T. Williams' Farms of N.C., Inc., Ex. 3). Plaintiff directed that service occur no later than December ... (D.Md.1986); see also Hammad v. Tate Access Floors, Inc., 31 F.Supp.2d 524, 528 (D.Md.1999). A defendant ... service because the summons did not list his name. Rule 4(e)(2) provides that unless otherwise provided, service may be effected "by delivering a copy ...

... too many cases in his Marshall court. In re Volkswagen AG and Volkswagen America, Inc., is a product liability case but the patent bar is deeply involved, since it's Judge Ward ... ." (AIPLA President Jim Pooley was pretty kind to Ward when I interviewed him, calling E.D. Tex a "victim of its own success.") Baxter writes: "The Eastern District has unjustly ... . For example, Emeryville-based LeapFrog paid two Bay Area patent lawyers $7.5 million to avoid an E.D. Tex trial in November; Judge Ward refused ...

Per U.S. v. Sea Bay Development Corp., Slip Copy, 2007 WL 1378544 (E.D.Va. May 08, 2007): The standards for proper service ... see Lilly v. Winter, No. 1:05cv879, 2006 WL 543977, at *1 (E.D.Va. March 3, 2006) (incorporating the Rule 4(m) time limit ... 661 (D.Md.1986); see also Hammad v. Tate Access Floors, Inc., 31 F.Supp.2d 524, 528 (D.Md.1999). A defendant's ... the Supreme Court ...."), with In re Hall, 222 B.R. 275, 278 (Bankr.E.D.Va.1998) ( "Although courts have criticized Mendez, it remains binding ...

In California, Fremont-based Curon Medical Inc. has shut down its operation, fired all of its employees, and filed for Chapter 7 bankruptcy. In the bankruptcy statement that the East Bay life sciences company filed with the SEC on Wednesday, Curon said ... ; 3. A list of all of the debtor's property; and 4. A detailed list of the debtor's monthly living expenses, i.e., food, clothing, shelter, utilities, taxes, transportation, medicine, etc. Here are the initial steps for how to file for Chapter 7 ...

... 343-9927 Web: http://www.goodwillsocal.org Goodwill Industries of the Greater East Bay, Inc. 1301 30th Avenue Oakland, CA 94601 Phone: (510) 698- ... .org Santa Clarita Valley Mayor's Committee for Employment of Individuals with Disabilities E-mail: admin@scmayorsdisabilities.org Web: http://www.scmayorsdisabilities.org FEDERAL AGENCIES ... 94026-4031 Phone: (650) 366-6597 Fax: (650) 366-9053 E-mail: info@rebuildingtogetherpeninsula.org Web: http://www.rebuildingtogetherpeninsula.org Rebuilding Together ...